Ged Maheux"I love using your free Mac software and want to use it on iOS but I can't afford it. Could I get a free copy? Thanks!"
Fires up ChatGPT...
Tom Walker@gedeonm I don't understand the praise for this. That response is lifeless corporate boilerplate
@tomw If I had to guess it has something to do with the nature of the request being made. If it wasn’t a disrespectful play to receive something valuable that people spent many many hours crafting for absolutely nothing then I would be happy to respond in person (as I always have in over 25 years in business). But your milage may vary. 🤷♂️
@gedeonm OK, but what problem does the AI solve here? Being faux polite to someone for you? Why not just tell them to get lost?
@tomw it solves me having to spend more than 10 minutes of time trying to craft the perfect, polite and emotionally taxing reply. Note that last part especially. It also helps keep me from lashing out, which believe me, I very badly want to do.
@gedeonm But if your answer is "no", you are surely under no obligation to be perfect, polite or emotionally taxed. Or even to reply.